News

Housing costs have exacerbated income equality in Germany

CReAM Research by Christian Dustmann and co-authors finds that changes in housing expenditures dramatically exacerbated the rise in income inequality in Germany since the mid-1990s. The research was covered on the German press.

Press Release

Immigrant and disadvantaged children benefit most from early childcare

Attending universal childcare from age three significantly improves the school readiness of children from immigrant and disadvantaged family backgrounds.

The Criminal Behaviour of Young Fathers

CReAM Research by Christian Dustmann and Rasmus Landersø, finds that very young fathers who have their first child while they are still teenagers subsequently commit less crime if the child is a boy than if it is a girl. This then has a spill over effect on other young men of a similar age living in the same neighbourhoods as the young father. The research was covered on the British press.

BBC 2

"I was quite prepared... to use the cover of the statistician's analysis": Former home secretary David Blunkett and Prof Dustmann on the 2003 report on EU accession

Brexit

BBC Three Counties

Christian Dustmann discussing Theresa May's comments on EU workers 'jumping the queue' on BBC Three Counties.

External Research Fellow

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Email: jrs@rff.dk

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Jan Rose Skaksen

Jan Rose Skaksen is a Professor in Economics at Copenhagen Business School where he is a member of the Economics Department and Centre for Economic and Business Research (CEBR).Since 2001, he has been a Research Fellow at IZA, Bonn. He has participated a lot in economic policy advising in Denmark, and from 2003 to 2008 he was a member of the Chairmanship for the Danish Economic Council. Presently his research areas are: migration, exporting firms, productivity and human capital. His work has been published in journals like Journal of International Economics, Journal of Public Economics, European Economic Review and Scandinavian Journal of Economics.

Jan Rose Skaksen joined CReAM as an external fellow in December 2011.